Two New Posts up at The Second Road

I am intending on republishing these here eventually, but I'm trying to build in at least a few weeks to give folks a chance to read them at The Second Road:

Newcomers

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Recently, I have been meeting a lot of women who have just discovered that their partners are sex addicts. They reach out to me looking for experience and advice in the midst o their despair, and I find myself feeling strangely awkward. I simply don't know what to say, in spite of the fact that I have been in that dark and lonely territory where they now find themselves...


Journaling

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My daughter, Janie, came home from kindergarten this week excitedly telling me about the journal she has started keeping at school. At five, she and her classmates can't write much, but her teacher has them draw pictures if they'd like instead. I told my daughter that I keep a journal too, only it's in words instead of pictures....